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PClipdrop vs Dreamwave
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Clipdrop if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you need an API to build on
- you're in its core audience: marketers, designers
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Choose Dreamwave if…
- you're in its core audience: hr and people teams, professionals and job seekers
Side by side
Feature Clipdrop Dreamwave
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Background removal—
AI upscaling—
Generative fill/erase—
Relighting—
Photoshop/Lightroom plugin—
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb
CategoryPhoto EditingAI Headshots
CompanyInitML · since 2020 · part of Jasper.aiDreamwave AI, Inc.
Full feature lists
C Clipdrop
- Text-to-image generation
- Background removal and replacement
- Cleanup of objects, people, text and defects
- Image upscaling up to x16 on Pro
- Relight to change image lighting
- Uncrop to extend photos into new formats
- Universal resizer for social media formats
- Photoshop plugins and usage-based API
D Dreamwave
- Headshots generated from a single selfie
- Team-wide consistent styles like Business Formal and White Coats
- 4K print-ready output for badging
- HRIS sync with Workday, ADP, Rippling, Gusto, BambooHR
- Push photos to Slack, Outlook and Okta
- Prompt-based outfit, background and distraction edits
- Branded AI photobooth for live events
- Specialty styles for real estate and clinical staff
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
Clipdrop · clipdrop.co
Dreamwave · dreamwave.aiWhat you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
What the free plans include
Clipdrop
- Background Removal 20/24h
- Image Upscaler x2 20/24h
- Cleanup 20/24h
- Relight 20/24h
Dreamwave
No free plan.
All plans and prices
Clipdrop
Free$0
ProNot listed
APIUsage-based
Dreamwave
Company headshots$49-59 per person
Event photoboothCustom
Strengths and limitations
Clipdrop
- Free plan includes daily uses of most tools
- Pro raises limits to 1,000 uses per 24 hours per tool
- API and Photoshop plugins available
- Free plan limited to 20 uses per day on several tools
- No mobile apps listed
Dreamwave
- Team plan includes 150 photos per person and a free redo
- 1-2 hour turnaround
- Integrates with major HRIS and workplace apps
- Says it never sells or trains on user data, and data is deletable
- No free plan
- Event photobooth pricing is quote-only
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 5, 2026. Editorial policy